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REMARKS 

OF 

ROBERT LANSING 

Secretary of State of the United States 
AT 

A LUNCHEON TO THE AMERICAN-MEXICAN 
JOINT COMMISSION AT THE 
HOTEL BILTMORE 


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NEW YORK CITY 
SEPTEMBER 4, 1916 



WASHINGTON 

GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 
1916 













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REMARKS 


OF 

ROBERT LANSING 

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Secretary of State of the United States 


A LUNCHEON TO THE AMERICAN-MEXICAN 
JOINT COMMISSION AT THE 
HOTEL BILTMORE 


V 


NEW YORK CITY 
SEPTEMBER 4, 1916 



WASHINGTON 

GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 
1916 




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Gentlemen : It is a great pleasure to me to be present at this first 
assembling of the American-Mexican Joint Commission which so 
clearly manifests to the world the spirit of good will and mutual 
regard which animates the Republics of America in the settlement 
of their controversies. It is not only a pleasure but an honor for me 
to tender to you on behalf of the President and Government of the 
United States greetings on this auspicious occasion and a hearty 
welcome to the Commissioners of Mexico, who have come so far to 
participate in these sessions. 

With the pleasure and satisfaction of being here to-day there is 
also a full realization of the difficulty of the task which lies before 
you. It is no easy matter to reach an agreement as to the complex 
subjects of mutual interest to our two countries and to find a way 
which will satisfy not only the two Governments but also the peoples 
of the two nations. I believe that you, gentlemen, share with me 
the sincere desire to find that way and to bring the United States 
and Mexico into more complete accord by a just appreciation of the 
many domestic as well as international problems which each Gov¬ 
ernment has had to face in these troublous times. 

I need not assure you that my Government has been inspired 
throughout the past three years with a sincere desire to arrange in 
an amicable way the numerous questions which have arisen as a 
result of the civil strife which has shaken the Mexican Republic to 
its very foundations and has caused so much loss of life and prop¬ 
erty, so much suffering and privation. We have watched the prog¬ 
ress of the revolution with anxious solicitude; we have tried to be 
fair in judgment and to see things from the point of view of those 
who control the destinies of Mexico; we have sought to be patient 
and to await the time when the approach of peace and order in 
Mexico would offer favorable opportunity for the adjustment of 
our difficulties; from first to last we have kept our minds free from 
rancor and bitterness and prejudice, and have in a spirit of disin¬ 
terested friendliness confidently expected that the day would come 

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when the representatives of the two countries could meet and calmly 
and frankly discuss our international relations. 

That day has at last arrived. The present conference is a realiza¬ 
tion of our expectation, and I look forward to its future accomplish¬ 
ment with assurance that it will settle the questions which have been 
causes of irritation. Its success depends in large measure—I think 
that I may say, entirely—upon the spirit which you, the commis¬ 
sioners of both Governments, evince when you come to discuss the 
various phases in our relations. If this spirit is one of frankness, 
of trust, of sympathy, it requires no prophet’s vision to foresee that 
you will succeed; and, if you succeed, you will have the satisfaction 
of knowing that you have performed an inestimable service to your 
countries. But, if suspicion, doubt, and aloofness mark you deliber¬ 
ations, you may expect to accomplish little and leave the two nations 
in the same tangle of misunderstandings and false judgments which 
I feel have been the chief reasons for our controversies in the past. 

The responsibility rests with you, gentlemen. The burden is not a 
light one, but you have generously and patriotically assumed it in 
response to the call of your Governments. I am sure that the 
American commissioners, whom I know so well, and the Mexican 
commissioners, for whom I have high respect, knowing from others 
of their distinguished attainments, will show that consideration and 
patience which will bring you into harmony and agreement. 

It is not my purpose to dwell upon the subjects which will be 
considered by the commission. The immediate subject and the 
immediate cause of your meeting here to-day is the situation along 
the international boundary. I believe that a temporary solution 
could be readily found, but the Government of the United States 
seeks a permanent, not a temporary, settlement of the difficulty, and 
I feel assured that the Government of Mexico desires nothing less. 
To reach such a settlement, one that will be lasting and sure, it will 
be necessary to go to the root of the matter, to consider international 
rights and duties, and to discuss the relation of the individual to the 
state as well as the relation of the state to the individual, subjects 
fundamental to social order and to the intercourse between enlight¬ 
ened governments. 

It seems to me that if you would reach a complete adjustment of 
the matters affecting our relations which will satisfy the future as 


5 


well as the present yon can not avoid considering the personal rights 
and economic interests of Americans who have found in Mexico a 
field for their energies. It is through the consideration of such sub¬ 
jects that the seeds of future controversy can be destroyed and en¬ 
tire confidence restored, so that the Mexican Government and people 
may build on the ruins of war and disorder a new and more lasting 
prosperity than the Republic has ever known, a prosperity founded 
on liberty and justice under a government supported by the united 
will of a free people. 

This, gentlemen, I conceive to be your task; and I hope most 
earnestly that your sphere of discussion will widen as you meet from 
day to day, so that every obstacle, which has arisen or which might 
hereafter arise to vex the cordial relations of your Governments, 
may be removed, and your two countries and their peoples may be 
drawn into a closer union cemented by friendship and good will 
and by that mutual respect for justice which should govern all na¬ 
tions in their intercourse with one another. 

To the commission as a whole I look with confident hope that 
they will succeed in the great mission with which they have been 
charged, and I know that this hope is near to the hearts of the 
millions of Americans and Mexicans who are watching you to-day 
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